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S47 Awards Voting

Awhile back in one of my other worlds (I believe it was FYC), I started a segment where I looked at each of the candidates for awards through the lens of Wins Above Replacement to see which guys are the most deserving. Since then, I have been through several permutations of WAR calculations but I have finally settled on a spreadsheet that is both time-efficient and the most accurate that I have found as it is park-adjusted. Using that method, I took a look at this season's candidates to see who should be considered the front-runners:

AL MVP

Marty Roosevelt (1B-San Juan), 9.76 WAR

Enrique Guzman (RF-San Juan), 7.87 WAR

Winston Dransfeldt (1B-San Antonio), 6.84 WAR

Dizzy Ellis (LF-Chicago, AL), 5.84 WAR

Ryan Jackson (LF-San Juan), 5.92 WAR

NL MVP

Alexi Franco (1B-Jacksonville), 7.88 WAR

Enny Cayones (LF-Scranton), 7.01 WAR

Elian Rojas Jr. (3B-Scranton), 6.01 WAR

Odalis Marmol (1B-Tampa Bay), 7.85 WAR

Claude Hunter (LF-Tampa Bay), 6.86 WAR

AL Cy Young

Brandon Peters (SP-San Juan), 4.64 WAR

Kip Ratliff (RP-Hartford), 1.26 WAR

Adam O'Neill (SP-San Juan), 4.66 WAR

Charley Beckett (SP-Salem), 2.46 WAR

David Peron (RP-Madison), 2.14 WAR

NL Cy Young

Nigel Maybin (SP-Pittsburgh), 7.42 WAR

Geraldo Terrero (SP-Montreal), 5.70 WAR

YasielaArias (SP-Pittsburgh), 6.23 WAR

Eugenio James (SP-Montreal), 4.63 WAR

Everett Stuart (SP-Anaheim), 4.76 WAR

AL Rookie of the Year

Enrique Lee (SP-Salem), 3.85 WAR

Richard Boyer (RP-Chicago), 0.15 WAR

Asdrubal Rojas (3B-Atlanta), 2.81 WAR

Dan Sherman (DH-Tacoma), 2.71 WAR

Pierce Sowders (LF-Toledo), 2.15 WAR

NL Rookie of the Year

Quinton Strickland, (SP-Montgomery), 3.01 WAR

Felix Faulk (2B-Tampa Bay), 4.22 WAR

JO Pena (SP-Vancouver), 1.45 WAR

Vern Statia (SP-Florida), 1.75 WAR

Tyson Cowgill (LF-Florida), 4.09 WAR

As far as my own ballot is concerned, I generally try to vote for the WAR leader for each category unless there are extenuating circumstances. This season, the only exception I'm going to make is in the AL Cy Young race where teammates Adam O'Neill and Brandon Peters finished .02 WAR apart. Although it was O'Neill who beat out Peters by a whisker, my vote is going Peters' way because longtime owner bcpbcp7 noted in World Chat that "He's been too close too many times." That means my ballot will be Roosevelt/Franco/Peters/Maybin/Lee/Faulk.